Love without borders

“I enjoy every day I have with mom”

Christine and Michael Appelt in the garden of their home in Perchtoldsdorf.(Bild: Gerhard Bartel)

A Viennese photographer moved back into his former childhood home four years ago - to care for his mother, who suffers from dementia, and to always be there for her. "I owe her that," he says.

It started slowly, insidiously, from around 2018 - Christine Appelt became forgetful. Only sometimes at first, just a little. "Hardly noticeable, actually," recalls her son Michael.